TIA Centre: News

Several TIA colleagues attended the MICCAI Society Conference held in South Korea in September 2025 and participated in a series of Challenges.

First up, was the prestigious MIDOG 2025 Challenge which was co-led by our amazing PhD students Esha Nasir and Jiaqi Lv, alongside Mostafa Jahanifar and Shan E Ahmed Raza, the team achieved:

🥇 1st Place in Track 1 – Mitotic Figure Detection
🥈 2nd Place in Track 2 – Atypical Mitotic Figure Classification

The MIDOG Challenge focuses on the automated analysis of mitotic figures, a key task in cancer grading. This year’s challenge introduced atypical mitoses and more complex tissue domains. This continues a strong record for the TIA, having previously achieved 1st place finishes in MIDOG 2021 and 2022.

Up next, was the CHIMERA Grand Challenge where our team “TIA-Pegasus” secured leading positions. Participation in the Challenge saw teams compete across three tasks on multimodal AI for cancer prognosis and treatment response and TIA colleagues consisting of (Jiaqi Lv, Ethar Alzaid, Adam Shephard, Shan E Ahmed Raza, led by Noorul Wahab) secured 1st place in Task 1.

Inspired by Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology who helped defeat the Chimera, our model ModalSurv aimed to integrate clinical, radiology, and pathology data. Interestingly, clinical data alone was sufficient to achieve top performance, highlighting both the strength of our approach and the challenges of assembling large, balanced multimodal datasets.

We look forward to building on the success in both these Challenges and will share further development in the near future. Come back shortly to read Noorul Wahab’s write up on his attendance at the conference and his key takeaways.